Yaya Touré and David Silva are "not indispensable" to Manchester City, according to the first-team coach David Platt.

"We have to look at things," Platt told the Manchester Evening News. "We want to get to a point where nobody is indispensable. What we know with Yaya, he can give us so much balance, so much control of the game – a lot goes through him. With David, when you think you are coming up against a tight defence, he can open things up with his ability.

"We address every game as it comes, with one eye on what the players have done and what the players are going to have to do in the next game. A lot is made of people missing games but we don't just pick a team for one particular game."

Silva should feature for Spain in their World Cup Group I qualifier against France on Tuesday, while Touré should play for Ivory Coast in Wednesday afternoon's friendly against Austria.

Touré and his brother Kolo were caught up in the riot that engulfed the Ivory Coast's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Saturday in Senegal, which caused it to be abandoned.

"It was weird," Kolo told l'Equipe. When we were all gathered in the middle of the pitch we weren't really scared, but we had to avoid the stones, and the fires made it really hot. One of my brothers wanted to come to the stadium for the game but I told him not to because I feared something like this would happen."

Arsenal's Gervinho, West Ham United's Mohamed Diamé and Papiss Cissé, Demba Ba and Cheik Tioté of Newcastle United were also involved in the game.